Public bug reported:
I have an Asus P5Q motherboard with an onboard firewire chip, and a fresh
installation of ubuntu 9.04, only installed some extra programs + multimedia
codecs.
lspci gives me this chip: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
Enabling the chip in the BIOS causes ubuntu to freeze within an hour. It's a
complete system freeze where my pc is completely unresponsive. I cannot
replicate this behaviour other than enabling the chip. The freeze can happen
whilst browsing the internet, but as well when the pc is in screensaver mode
and idle. Seems to be completely at random and only related to the enabled
firewire chip.
I doesn't even matter if something is connected to the chip.
I must make clear that before enabling the chip I had no problems
whatsoever with Jaunty, and only did a reinstall because of shifting
some partitions.
In *cough* another OS (windows), I've had no problems with the firewire
chip, so it seems to be software & ubuntu related.
Now I've added a pci firewire card o my machine, and that's working fine.
lspci gives me this chip for the new add-on card: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere
Systems FW323 (rev 61)
Yes, that's right, it's the same chip, but an older revision. So I'm a bit
clueless where to look for answers.
My log files don't log anything when the freeze happens, so i reckon the kernel
panicks at that point? Is that correct?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=/dev/sda6
MachineType: System manufacturer P5Q
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.44
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1f403587-64b6-4e70-9153-1514a4df403c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/User Nameh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: linux
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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Enabling onboard firewire chip causes a complete system freeze
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394220
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